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Landmine Survivors Network Created by and for survivors, LSN empowers individuals and communities affected by landmines to recover from trauma, reclaim their lives, and fulfill their rights. Message from Jane Olson ince 1997, LSN has established Peer Support Networks in six mine- Chair, Board of Directors Saffected countries: , Jordan, El Salvador, Dear Friends, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Vietnam. LSN employs more than 40 staff and Last fall, I traveled with LSN Board members and friends to visit the consultants at its Washington, DC, Headquarters, and nearly 100 people Jordan Network and assess both the challenges and achievements of LSN. Jordanian Outreach Workers introduced us to courageous survivors in abroad, most of whom are survivors. their homes, at clinics, jobs and play. We witnessed struggle and pain, but Over the past year, LSN has helped thousands of families affected we also watched the thrill of competition at an amputee swim tournament, and saw pride in the eyes of a survivor who described his new business by landmines, provided more than 15,000 home and hospital visits to launched with LSN support. survivors, and helped launch more than 280 survivor-owned businesses. Our rights-based development initiative gets survivors on their feet and back to their lives. One young amputee described his relationship with LSN But there is still much work to do. as a “contract for hope.” We toured demining projects in the Jordan Valley and met heroic deminers who were injured while removing 100,000 of the nearly 300,000 buried landmines. Military deminers make up 20% of our caseload. The trip was not all work. We visited historic, cultural and natural phenomena. During our climb through Petra, the ancient rose-colored city, I reflected on TABLE OF CONTENTS the resiliency of landmine survivors. LSN frequently invites Board members, donors and friends to visit our Message from Chair, LSN Board of Directors...... 1 field programs. I hope you will consider joining us on a future mission, as I Message from Executive Director ...... 2 know you would be proud to see how your investment is changing so many Victim Survivor Citizen ...... 3 lives half a world away. Victim — Losing My Place ...... 4 I want to thank each of you for your contributions to LSN. It is inspiring Survivor — Finding My Place...... 10 to see how much can be done with modest resources, efficiency and relentless Citizen — Claiming My Place ...... 16 determination to help victims become survivors and reclaim their lives. Raising the Voices...... 22 Let’s keep up the good work, Goals for the Future ...... 24 Working Where We’re Needed Most ...... 26 Financial Summary ...... 27 Board, Contributors, Friends, Staff, Consultants and Trainers ...... 28

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Message from Jerry White Co-Founder and Executive Director Victim Survivor Citizen

Dear Friends, 2002 marks Landmine Survivors Network’s fifth anniversary. Co-Founder Recovery Evolves Ken Rutherford and I are grateful to dedicated staff, the Board, donors, e’ve learned from survivors that recovery is an evolving process. And while each individual’s path to families and friends. With your help, LSN has offered concrete support to recovery is unique, survivors around the world follow a similar process, with three distinct phases: improve the health and livelihood of thousands of landmine survivors since 1997. W Victim, Survivor, and Citizen. Each phase has different needs. From the beginning, it was clear that we were not just creating victim services for unfortunate landmine victims; we were offering trauma survivors • In the Victim phase, survivors feel disconnected and disempowered, even lost. Their needs are mostly a chance to reclaim their lives. related to emergency healthcare and emotional support. Many survivors describe that post accident it feels like you have lost your • In the Survivor phase, individuals are struggling to find their place. Their needs focus primarily on place. That description resonates with me. During recovery and rehabilitation, mobility and opportunities for work. it was hard for me to see where I fit in the world I had known. • In the Citizen phase, survivors focus more on claiming their rightful place as contributing members After my accident, a landmine survivor visited me in the hospital. He of their communities. Their needs turn to external factors, such as equal protection under the law and offered tough advice: “You have a choice: stay a victim or be a survivor.” human rights. George Orwell said, “To survive you have to fight.” I learned it is a tough fight to find and claim your place. LSN presents a map to health, opportunity Our trauma recovery research indicates that LSN’s integrated program encompassing Health, Opportunity, and rights. But in heavily mined countries in the developing world, there and Rights is a dynamic way to meet survivors’ needs, and help them reclaim their lives. LSN’s work are major roadblocks. Worldwide, only 10% have access to healthcare and addresses the whole person on the journey from injury to recovery. rehabilitation, and many survivors face prejudice and the systemic rejection of HEALTH We are helping survivors, amputees and their families recover people with disabilities. physically and emotionally from trauma through peer support, links LSN is changing how landmine survivors see themselves, how they are to existing services, education, and community support, and fulfilling Health perceived, and how they are treated. basic needs such as food and shelter. Rights Please read the Annual Report. It shows our success. But there is more Survivors OPPORTUNITY Jobs and economic independence are intrinsic to work to do. recovery. But people with disabilities are often hired last, if at all. With gratitude and best wishes, LSN is working to change the way employers view people with disabilities and opening doors for survivors to find jobs. Opportunity RIGHTS Through local, regional, and international advocacy, LSN offers survivors and all people with disabilities training and tools needed to claim their human rights. LSN is working to persuade governments and communities to respect and promote the human rights of all people with disabilities.

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Losing my place

hen a friend told me a nearby olive grove might be available for rent, Individual survivors are at I had to see the property for myself. While I was walking around the the center of LSN’s mission. grove, I stepped on a landmine. I laid in the grove suffering and near Worldwide, fewer than death for three hours before a driver spotted me. He took me to the 10% of survivors have access nearestW hospital— almost an hour away. I was unconscious when we arrived. My to proper medical care. A foot couldn’t be saved. growing child needs a new After the surgery, one question haunted me: “What will I do from now on?” artificial limb every six to I didn’t have insurance, and the hospital was expensive. Worried that I twelve months. An adult could not provide for my family, I sent my wife and children to live with her family needs a new prosthesis in Syria. I felt useless. Then I met Ma’moun Abu Hdeib, an LSN-Jordan every three to five years. Outreach Worker. He was walking with such a steady step that I didn’t even notice he was The US Department of Victim wearing a prosthesis. We talked about his injury and mine. I was so eager to State estimates that fewer speak to somebody like me. than one in four landmine As Ma’moun visited me more and more, I began to feel less and less hopeless. amputees is fitted with a Ma’moun helped me wrap my leg, and then taught me how to do it myself. LSN proper prosthesis. gave me crutches, ending my confinement. Ma’moun explained that under Jordan’s disability law, I was entitled to insurance that pays for medicine, treatment and prostheses. Ma’moun helped me enroll in the national health insurance plan. Now I receive free medicine and follow-up care. I was ready for a prosthesis. My insurance covered the cost but none was LSN helps survivors, amputees and their families achieve physical and available at the government hospital. Ma’moun and LSN stepped in again. emotional recovery from trauma through peer support, links to existing LSN paid a private service provider to fit me and provide a prosthetic foot. With LSN’s help, I found a job. I feel useful again. Now I have an answer services, education, and community support, and fulfilling basic needs to the question, ‘What can I do from now on?’ I can work, support my family such as food and shelter. and live a good life. — Younes Srour Wardat, Jordan

Above: LSN Outreach Worker Ma’moun Abu Hdeib helps Younes Srour Wardat wrap his residual limb, Jordan Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 5 health opportunity rights physicalA Time andto Heal emotional well-being ood healthcare is the starting point for trauma recovery. LSN Outreach Workers had an active caseload of 1,990 survivors last year — working to make sure each one has access to the care they need. When a survivor identifies a need that cannot be met by available services, LSN helps to Gmeet the need directly. Such needs include prostheses, doctor visits, medicine, Health wheelchairs, crutches, shelter and food. In addition, LSN Board and staff have Rights Survivors worked to increase funding for victim assistance programs through high-level meetings with government officials and by educating opinion-makers on the need. Opportunity PEER SUPPORT

SURVIVOR NEEDS Last year, LSN Outreach Workers conducted 15,615 hospital and home visits Self Acceptance with survivors to assess needs, offer psychological and social support, and educate Medical Care families about the effects of limb loss. Emotional Support Limb Loss Education LINKS TO HEALTHCARE

LSN RESPONSE Once a survivor’s physical, emotional, social and economic recovery needs are Peer Support evaluated, LSN links individual survivors and their families to existing services and Links to Healthcare tracks progress toward improved quality of life. Outreach Workers linked 903 Eighty percent of landmine Hospital Visits survivors to healthcare services last year. Education victims are civilians. Twenty-five percent of HOSPITAL VISITS GOAL landmine victims are Physical and Emotional Local hospitals alert LSN when new survivors arrive at the hospital. LSN sends children. Most survivors Well-being trained amputee visitors to meet new survivors. Through interaction with someone and their families live on who has survived a similar experience and gone on with their life, survivors are well under $1 per day. OUTCOME Health given hope as well as the inspirational lifeline of talking with someone who has been there. Outreach Workers persuade survivors to seek additional medical attention as soon as they need it and before a small problem turns into a large one.

EDUCATION LSN produces and distributes a variety of acclaimed informational materials in “I will not be a burden for my local languages that address a range of issues related to landmines, limb loss and disability. Our materials are designed to help survivors make the decisions family and community. I want to necessary for recovery. Already printed in seven languages, our Surviving Limb return to everyday life. With the Loss pamphlets were translated into Dari and Pashto last year for distribution in Afghanistan. help of the good people at LSN, there’s still work to do I am trying to get a job.”

6 Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 health opportunity rights LSN Outreach Workers help reclaim lives one survivor at a time. Our Peer Support program has been

Jerry White, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Her Majesty Queen Noor with members of Sen. Brownback’s staff prior to Senate Briefing on Victim Assistance legislation, April 2002. praised as a public health model. Convincing US to Provide Aid for War Victims he human cost of war is deep and lasting. When nation states start to Building a Community of Support Tfragment or implode, nine out of ten of those killed, maimed or forced to flee through war are civilians. Many are women and children. Outreach Workers, who are all survivors and amputees, complete a training Many are injured or killed by landmines. program specifically designed for them by LSN trauma recovery experts. As Victims of forced amputations in Sierra Leone cannot afford prosthetic former victims turned survivors, LSN Outreach Workers have an intimate limbs; children in Iraq are in great danger unless educated about the threat knowledge of what each individual survivor is going through. They help each of landmines; mine victims in Afghanistan, desperately need psycho-social survivor to assess his/her physical, emotional and social needs. They then work support to reclaim their lives. Who will help these innocent victims together to help each person chart their own path to recovery. of landmines, war, conflict and civil strife? Enquayehu Asres, an LSN-Ethiopia Outreach Worker, lost the use of her left LSN is reaching out to Members of the US Congress to promote the leg when she was three years old. Although Enquayehu considers herself lucky to “International Disability and Victims of Civil Strife and Warfare have been allowed to go to school, she remembers her school years as very difficult Assistance Act.” The legislation addresses the long-term needs of and painful. She couldn’t run and play like the other kids, but worse than that, victims of war. It will establish programs and resources for USAID and the her parents were ashamed of having a child with a disability. Except for going to Department of Health and Human Services to provide increased assistance “One of the challenges school, she was not allowed out of the house. for: medical and rehabilitative services; research, prevention and public we face is the negative Enquayehu had little success finding work until she joined a tailoring awareness campaigns; and facilitation of peer support networks for attitude of our families and organization owned by people with disabilities. Meeting and working with individuals with disabilities in war-torn nations. schools. LSN provides vital other people with disabilities helped her understand that she was not alone and information to assist them in that she was capable of leading a full life. She is passionate about passing that • This important and timely legislation (S. 1777) passed the Senate by understanding and supporting understanding on to the survivors, particularly the children she meets every unanimous consent on September 13, 2002. Unfortunately, the House of children with disabilities.” day in her work as an LSN Outreach Worker. Representatives did not consider the legislation before Congress adjourned. — Enquayehu Asres Enquayehu has become a best friend to many of the survivors she visits, and LSN-Ethiopia Outreach Worker • In early 2003, an identical Bill was introduced by Senators Sam says she knows she has made a difference in their lives. “They trust me and I Brownback (R-KS) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) – S. 742 – and in have their acceptance,” she said. “I am also learning from them.” the House by Representatives Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Frank Wolf (R-VA) — H.R. 1462. At press time, the Bill had not yet come to either the Senate or House for a vote. We are confident the Bill will pass this year. 8 Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 health opportunity rights

Finding my place

uring El Salvador’s civil war, I volunteered to help my fellow Like Juan, many mine- countrymen as a medic in remote areas where doctors and nurses were injured men, women, and not available. We heard a man screaming for help. He had just children struggle to make stepped on a landmine. ends meet. Unable to DOthers on the team refused to aid the bleeding man because he was earn a living, many are obviously in a minefield. I ran to help. I was lifting him when another cast out into the streets landmine exploded. The injured man died immediately and I lost both my legs. by family members and My recovery was long and difficult. I spent seven years in a rehabilitation forced to beg. The hospital. I had no money to pay for food so I learned to make small crafts, barriers survivors face in which I sold for pennies. I longed to leave the hospital and live at home. finding employment are I was deeply depressed before I met LSN Outreach Worker José Arias. often more disabling than José understood how I felt, because he is an amputee like me. José motivated the landmine injury itself. Survivor me to overcome my difficulties and showed me it was possible to reach my goals. I told José that I once worked in my uncle’s bakery. He encouraged me to open a business to bake and sell quesadillas myself. We developed a business plan, and LSN gave me a mixer and a stove to get started. Today, I bake quesadillas, and my mother sells them to workers at a nearby factory. My special recipe is quite popular. I am pleased to say the business is doing well. LSN helped me find a wheelchair-accessible home close to a busy main road. I can now sell more quesadillas to more hungry people. I am writing a new business plan to expand my business, and plan to train and hire other survivors to work with me. — Juan Antonio Carbajal, El Salvador LSN is expanding and deepening our economic integration program to provide skills training, open up more jobs, and encourage small business development in mine-affected countries.

Above: Juan Antonio Carbajal in his bakery, El Salvador. Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 11 health opportunity rights economicOpportunity integration and livelihood SN programs are based on the belief that by helping survivors forge their own path toward recovery, survivors can take a more active role in finding their place in society. Last year, LSN helped survivors create more than 280 small In 2002, LSN employed businesses. We provided start-up equipment such as sewing machines, saws, cobblerL tools and baking supplies. We helped survivors acquire livestock to produce survivors and Health eggs, honey, dairy products, and wool. amputees for key Survivors Rights managerial and all PEER GUIDANCE outreach staff positions. Opportunity LSN promotes group activities like amputee sports, international competitions, and recreational and educational activities to help survivors build self-confidence, forge relationships within communities, and reach out to other survivors from regions SURVIVOR NEEDS Family Acceptance previously in conflict. Rehabilitation and Mobility Recreation and Exercise ROLE MODELS Job Skills Counseling LSN hires staff and trains them to be role models. Survivors meet an LSN Outreach Worker and say, “If he can make it, so can I.” LSN RESPONSE Peer Guidance HOME VISITS AND FAMILY EDUCATION Role Models Families are frequently involved in Outreach Worker visits to a home. It is important Home Visits and Family Education for families to hear the same messages as survivors, and to understand the survivor Vocational Training does not have to remain a victim. Outreach Workers use our Surviving Limb Loss pamphlet series in meetings with family members. One of the pamphlets, GOAL Economic Integration “Information for Families,” is written specifically for this purpose. and Livelihood VOCATIONAL TRAINING OUTCOME LSN works with local employers to help people with disabilities find job opportunities. Opportunity In Jordan, LSN paid for survivors to take computer courses. In Bosnia, LSN Outreach Workers provide small business development training in collaboration with other international NGOs. One survivor’s LSN-supported auto repair business was so successful he had to hire an assistant — and he hired another survivor. LSN survivors are working in tailoring and shoe repair businesses, as locksmiths and a host of other occupations.

there’s still work to do “I want to work in any job. I need to feel valued, that I am human.”

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Sports and Recreation

People with disabilities LSN Networks promote sports for people with disabilities, as well as a wide encounter enormous variety of social activities to help survivors integrate into their communities. barriers when attempting SPORTS to compete in sports or Inaccessible facilities top even develop a personal As they do for people without disabilities, sports improve physical and psychological the list of barriers to sports exercise program. well-being for many people with disabilities. Last year, LSN-El Salvador sponsored 30 players on an Amputee Soccer Team by providing equipment and participation for many “Sports are a natural way uniforms. LSN-Bosnia and Herzegovina held two international tournaments — the people with disabilities. to break the isolation LSN Second Annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament and the Fourth survivors often feel.” Annual Princess Diana Memorial Sitting Volleyball Tournament. LSN-Jordan — Plamenko Priganica, Director LSN-Bosnia and Herzegovina sponsored a Table-Tennis team, a Sitting Volleyball Team, and an Amputee Swim Team.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES LSN promotes group activities to help survivors increase contact and build relationships among other survivors and within their communities. At LSN-Bosnia and Herzegovina, structured Peer Support Groups meet regularly for a six-month period. Each group has eight survivors in different stages of recovery: two who are new to LSN and in the Victim phase of their recovery; four in the Survivor phase; and two in the Citizen phase. During meetings, survivors discuss a variety of topics including jobs, phantom pain, and self-image. Many groups work so well they continue to meet with each other on their own after the group’s cycle is over. One group in Banja Luka founded its own organization, the Association for Amputees. At LSN-Ethiopia, small groups of survivors meet monthly to talk about issues of interest. One group is specifically for children, and is a way for them to talk about their experiences in a safe environment. At the end of their discussions, they play table-tennis and other team sports. LSN-Mozambique celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd by organizing a day-long event that included games and sports such as wheelchair races and sack races. LSN-Jordan held a Ramadan breakfast for survivors. This holiday activity was chosen because it is a special time for gathering with families, and people with disabilities are often left out of these important social gatherings. "When I score a goal, everyone sees my capability, not my disability."

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Claiming my place

know the sting and stigma of a landmine injury. When I was 12 years old, Ninety-eight percent of I found a landmine on the banks of a river. It blew up in my hands. I lost children with disabilities in an eye and both hands. Little did I know, but in that instant I lost my the developing world are family too. denied formal education. I After three months in the hospital I was sent home to my family. I was In some countries, people happy to come home, but was devastated and unprepared for my father’s with disabilities cannot reaction to me. He was very angry with me. He seemed to hate me and inherit property, hold couldn’t accept the damaged son standing before him. In a fit of anger, he passports, marry, give chased me out of the house and tried to kill me with his pistol. Probably, if evidence at trials or be he had killed me, the crime would have gone unpunished. legal guardians of children. I was abandoned by my family and had to learn to fend for myself. My hands were gone, but somehow I convinced myself to make the best of the Citizen situation. I had to. I found a job as an apprentice in a factory that employs people with disabilities. It was a turning point in my life. I was trained in sewing and office work, pursued my education and completed high school. I had the confidence to pursue a new interest — photography. I bought a small camera and was able to make enough money to support eight family members and build my own house. I came to LSN, and was hired as the official photographer of LSN-Ethiopia. Everyone there accepts me, and other survivors tell me they are proud to know me. “Citizenship is man’s basic right, for it is — Seleshi Beyene, Ethiopia nothing less than the right to have rights.” Six hundred million people — almost 10% of the world’s population — EARL WARREN, FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE, US SUPREME COURT — live with disabilities. Many do not have the chance to work.

Above: Seleshi Beyene, Ethiopia Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 17 health opportunity rights socialRights integration and Responsibilities and access SN’s local, regional and international Advocacy Programs help survivors and people with disabilities know their rights, understand laws and policies and campaign to effect change in their own countries. These programs are L helping to secure the human rights of all people with disabilities. Health PEER LEADERSHIP

Survivors Rights Raising the Voices, a collaboration between LSN and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), is a human rights and leadership training program that Opportunity empowers survivors to build the skills, knowledge, and capacities to become advocates for themselves and others. In 2002, survivors from ten African nations participated. People with disabilities often CITIZEN NEEDS Margaret Arach, a Raising the Voices graduate from Uganda, is now Co-Chair of the live in poverty, dependence Community Acceptance ICBL Working Group on Victim Assistance. Raising the Voices is also being offered and social exclusion. Their Barrier-Free Access to survivors from Asia (2003) and the Middle East (2004). potential contribution is lost Equal Treatment Under the Law RIGHTS AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS — to their own livelihood, to Employment Opportunities LSN is building a global community to promote and protect the rights of their families, to employers, and to society as a whole. LSN RESPONSE landmine survivors and people with disabilities. We are reaching out to schools, Peer Leadership interfaith denominations, and the media. For example, in 2002, students at Rights Awareness and 75 US International Baccalaureate schools researched needs of landmine Advocacy Campaigns Business Community survivors and raised more than $30,000 for victim assistance. Partnerships LSN is a leader in a growing coalition of disability, human rights, relief, development, and faith-based groups who are campaigning to secure a UN GOAL Social Integration and Access Convention that will promote the human rights of people with disabilities. LSN Co-Founder Ken Rutherford issued a call-for-action at the Disabled OUTCOME Peoples’ International World Assembly in Sapporo, Japan. The Conference voted Rights unanimously to endorse the Convention. LSN has launched a new website, www.rightsforall.com in both English and Arabic. LSN is working to engage governments, the United Nations and NGOs in the Convention process. LSN has organized workshops and conferences in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East to empower survivors and encourage people with disabilities to become strong advocates for laws and policies that positively affect their lives. “My wish is…that no one suffer LSN was instrumental in organizing a World Bank conference on disability and poverty reduction where LSN Patron Queen Noor and World Bank President like this, and have to depend James Wolfensohn announced new efforts to address the issue of disability, poverty eradication and rights. financially on someone else there’s still work to do because they cannot work.”

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Justin Dart (seated, center) with LSN Staff, and Rosangela Berman-Bieler (USICD), Marca Bristo (NCD) and Yoshiko Dart at “A Call for Worldwide Recognition of the Human Rights of People with Disabilities,” equal opportunities for productive June 12, 2002. UN Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities and gainful employment. -Jordan Director, Adnan Al Aboudi was the only person LSNwith a disability from the developing world to address the The Right to Work first United Nations Ad Hoc Meeting discussing a Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities. Eighty percent of the 600 million Fewer than 45 of 189 Fewer than 25% of All people are born free and equal with dignity and rights. One area where people people with disabilities live in the developing world. Mr. Al Aboudi UN Member States women with disabilities with disabilities must be empowered to exercise their human rights is the right believes it was both a privilege and responsibility to represent them. are employed and paid to work. This community must have equal opportunities for productive and Over the past year, LSN has been a catalyst for a global campaign have any form of a salary. gainful employment. for a UN Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities. anti-discrimination law

One critical aspect of our work is to engage, offer access and train people for people with disabilities. BUSINESS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS with disabilities to participate in the process. We are working to organize LSN offers programs including job training and small business development that civil society, mobilize public opinion, and create political will to secure will lead survivors to economic independence. With the help of University of the Convention by 2007. Michigan Business School graduate students, LSN is researching market opportu- In the Spring of 2002, LSN and the National Council on Disability, nities and developing economic integration models to expand our ability to help organized a US conference to build consensus that disability rights are survivors get back into the workforce. human rights. Leaders in the disability and human rights communities formed a broad coalition. Keynote speaker, the late Justin Dart (1930-2002), often referred to as the father of the US disability rights movement, issued a call to action in support of the Convention, saying: “If we want a meaningful Convention, we must give up business as usual and fight as if the lives of millions depended on it, because they do.” The UN Convention will protect and promote the rights of people with disabilities. This legal framework will help LSN empower survivors to rebuild their lives.

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Raising the Voices empowers survivors to represent, Raising the Voices Graduates organize and advocate on behalf of landmine survivors at work in Africa and other people with disabilities in their home JEAN-CLAUDE BASSENE, SENEGAL countries and internationally. In Senegal, many children with disabilities do not go to school because superstition says that a disabled child brings shame and bad luck to the family. Mr. Bassene works to integrate children into the school system. He speaks with parents to convince them that a child with disabilities can be a productive member of the family – but only with an education. He works closely with Handicap International, which provides scholastic scholarships.

TEDLA GEBREHIWET, ERITREA In Eritrea, most buildings are inaccessible and there is no national-level policy addressing physical access. After his Raising the Voices training, Mr. Gebrehiwet went to the Ministry of Public Buildings to discuss ways of incorporating accessibility Raising the Voices into designs and construction of new buildings. The Ministry circulated a memo written by Mr. Gebrehiwet to the Association of Architects and Engineers. It outlined specific measures that resulted in the plans to modify projects currently underway, including a bank, a shopping mall, housing for ex-combatants, and a new hospital.

GEBRESELASSIE GEBREMARIUM, ETHIOPIA Many people in Addis Ababa, including landmine survivors, set up small, mobile shops by the roadside to make ends meet. But permits to do this are often denied. Mr. Gebremarium is working toward equal opportunity by advocating for special permits for persons with disabilities to set up roadside shops. He Raising the Voices is a campaign to provide the training and tools to formed a coalition of disability groups to approach the local government. The city is now reviewing its licensing policy. equip survivor leaders from mine-affected countries to contribute to their societies by taking their rightful place in the social structures.

Above: Raising the Voices participants in Geneva, Switzerland for International Mine Ban Treaty implementation meetings, September 2002. Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 23 there’s work to do

More work to do LSN commits to future projects based on our expectations for making a positive impact on the lives of survivors and their communities.

VIETNAM NETWORK Vietnam is littered with well over three million landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) leftover from the Vietnam War. It is estimated that 2,000 people are injured each year by this deadly debris. Most victims have limited access to medical assistance. LSN launched our newest network office in Quang Binh Province, in central Vietnam. The Bo Trach District in Quang Binh Province is located along the former demilitarized zone, one of the most heavily mined areas during the Vietnam War. LSN is meeting with landmine survivors on a commune-by-commune basis. We are working with Vietnamese officials to better identify and address the Goals for the future individual needs of survivors. AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan’s landmines are a legacy of 23 years of civil war and Soviet occupation, and kill or maim 150 to 300 people a month; 70% of them are civilians. LSN is determining how best to reach out to landmine survivors in post-conflict Afghanistan. We translated our Surviving Limb Loss pamphlet series into Pashto LSN will develop and deliver quality trauma recovery services to and Dari and will distribute them in 2003. In July 2002, Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to join the Mine Ban improve the Health of thousands of survivors in mine-affected Treaty. LSN facilitated survivors' role in this historic moment. In a July 2002 countries; create Opportunity and provide services to build letter to President Karzai, survivors wrote: “As Afghans who have suffered landmine accidents, we look forward to the day, God willing, when we will celebrate a economic independence for survivors worldwide; and, build an landmine-free Afghanistan — an Afghanistan where all people have the international campaign to promote the Rights, dignity and social opportunity to live and work in peace and dignity.” President Karzai invited LSN integration of survivors and other people with disabilities. staff and Afghan survivors to stand behind him at the signing ceremony in Kabul.

Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 25 ICELAND WORKING WHERE WE’REFINLAND NEEDED MOST GREENLAND NORWAY there’s work to do SWEDEN RUSSIA KEY ESTONIA High Impact > 500,000 mines/ AFGHANISTAN DENMARK LATVIA UXO; scores of casualties/year LITHUANIA Moderate Impact <500,000 mines/ NETH. LSN-Bosnia-Herzegovina U. K. IRELAND POLAND BELARUS UXO; periodic casualties/year CANADA SLOVENIA Current assessment GERMANY BELGIUM for LSN partnership Other mine-affected countries LUX. CZECH LSN 2002 EXPENSES BOSNIA SLOVAKIA UKRAINE KOSOVO AUSTRIAHUNGARY MOLDOVA SWITZ. MONGOLIA SLOVENIA FRANCE CROATIA EXPENSE 2002 MACEDONIA BOSNIA KOSOVO Financial Summary 2002 SERBIA ALBANIA MONTENEGRO GEORGIA CHECHNIYA MACEDONIA KYRGYZSTAN LSN Program Expenditures $3.8M GREECE ITALY ALBANIA ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN NORTH KOREA U. S. A. PORTUGAL GREECE TURKMENISTAN LSN-El Salvador SPAIN TURKEY TAJIKISTAN n FY 2002, LSN’s overall revenue increased by nearly $1 million, Administrative Services .4M BELIZE SOUTH KOREA CYPRUS SYRIA Development Expenses .3M HONDURAS TUNISIA LEBANON Jammu and CHINA MOROCCO PALESTINE AFGHANISTAN JAPAN ISRAEL Kashmir to more than $6 million, reflecting a 17% increase from the previous GUATEMALA IRAQ Total Expenses $4.5M IRAN I NICARAGUA Canary Islands EL SALVADOR KUWAIT NEPAL ALGERIA JORDAN PAKISTAN BHUTAN WESTERN LIBYA year. Individual donations, foundation investment and government Development THE BAHAMAS SAHARA QATAR COSTA RICA EGYPT U. A. E. TAIWAN Expenses: 6% OMAN BURMA Administrative SAUDI ARABIA (MYANMAR) CUBA DOM. REP. MAURITANIA BANGLADESH LAOS support all increased. JAMAICA Services: 8% BELIZE HAITI NIGER MALI ERITREA HONDURAS SENEGAL CHAD YEMEN THAILAND GUATEMALA INDIA Expenditures totaled $4.5 million during 2002, an increase of 32% SUDAN PHILIPPINES NICARAGUA GAMBIA CAMBODIA VIETNAM EL SALVADOR BURKINA NIGERIA DJIBOUTI GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA BENIN LSN-Jordan GHANA SOMALIA COSTA RICA VENEZUELA IVORY TOGO CYPRUS SYRIA SRI LANKA over the previous year. Program activities represent 86% of total expenses. COAST CENTRAL AFRICAN PANAMA SIERRA LEONE LEBANON GUYANA CAMEROON REPUBLIC BRUNEI FRENCH GUIANA PALESTINE SURINAME LIBERIA COLOMBIA ISRAEL MALAYSIA EQUATORIAL GUINEA KENYA ETHIOPIA I Program-related activities include: SAO TOME & PRINCIPE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA ECUADOR LSN-Ethiopia CONGO GABON CONGO RWANDA YEMEN BURUNDI K JORDAN PA PERU TANZANIA INDONESIA NE a) strengthening and expanding LSN’s international survivor networks; DJIBOUTI COMOROS BRAZIL SOMALIA ANGOLA ZAMBIA LSN-Vietnam MALAWI b) conducting research in the field of trauma psychology to determine BOLIVIA ) V ZIMBABWE MOZAMBIQUE LAOS NAMIBIA those factors most helpful in recovery and to utilize findings in the KENYA MADAGASCAR PARAGUAY ETHIOPIA BOTSWANA A AUSTRALIA COLOMBIA CHILE THAILAND design of LSN outreach programs; ARGENTINA SWAZILAND CAMBODIA VIETNAM LSN-Mozambique SOUTH AFRICA LESOTHO LSN Program

URUGUAY A Expenditures: 86% MALAWI c) training survivors from mine-affected regions on disability and human

Current assessment rights and supporting their efforts to plan and execute projects to for LSN partnership ZIMBABWE MOZAMBIQUE LSN 2002 REVENUE MADAGASCAR advance those rights; and, REVENUE 2002 d) providing seed support for survivor-run small businesses. Individual Donations $.5M Private Grants 2.1M The remaining 14% of expenditures cover general and administrative Public Funding 3.4M Tens of millions of mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) are buried in 90 mine-affected In-Kind & Other Sources .1M costs and development costs, 8% and 6% respectively. Total Revenue $6.1M* countries. LSN programs are reaching out to survivors in 21 of the 41 most-affected With most of LSN’s networks expanding their outreach activities in In-Kind & Other Individual Sources: 1% Donations: 8% nations and territories. the coming year, with additional country initiatives and an ever-increasing profile on the international advocacy front, LSN is projecting an $8 million HIGH IMPACT: Nation or territory with more than 500,000 buried mines/UXO inflicting scores to hundreds of casualties each year. budget in 2003. This will be possible not only with ongoing support Afghanistan Cambodia Croatia Iran Myanmar (Burma) from governments and foundations, but also through an expanded Algeria Chad Egypt Iraq Somalia individual donor program in 2003 and beyond. Private Grants: 34% Angola Chechnya Eritrea Laos Vietnam In all of our efforts, LSN strives to establish annual programmatic Bosnia and Congo Ethiopia Mozambique Zimbabwe objectives that are fiscally achievable, while delivering direct and Herzegovina measurable benefits to the lives of survivors, their families and communities. Public Since its inception, LSN has been audited annually by the DC-based Funding: 57% MODERATE IMPACT: Nation or territory with 500,000 or fewer mines/UXO inflicting ongoing casualties. accounting firm Raffa & Associates, P.C. Copies of audited financial *Note: The majority of excess revenue over expenditures in 2002 is earmarked Armenia El Salvador Korea Palestinian Authority Thailand statements and LSN’s 2002 Federal Form 990 are available upon request. and restricted for use in 2003. Azerbaijan Georgia Kosovo Rwanda Turkey Chile Jordan Lebanon Senegal Uganda Your support is crucial. There is much work to do Colombia Jammu and Western Sahara Sri Lanka Yemen Kashmir Nicaragua to address the rights and needs of a growing number of

LSN NETWORKS LSN PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES LSN SURVIVOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING INITIATIVES landmine and war victims worldwide.

Source: Landmine Monitor and UN Reports Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2002 27 there’s work to do

Board Friends and Supporters Her Majesty Queen Noor, International Patron Kara Rhodes, Montecito, CA LSN is grateful for the inumerable contributions of its many and Honorary Chair Kenneth Rutherford, Ph.D., LSN Co-Founder friends and supporters, including the family of HRH Prince The Honourable Hilary Weston, Patron, Canada and Assistant Professor, Southwest Missouri Ra’ad Bin Zeid of Jordan, Sir Paul McCartney and Lady State University, Springfield, MO McCartney, Christine Anger, Martin Barber, Jane Olson, Chair, Board of Directors, Pasadena, CA David Baum, Rosangela Berman-Bieler, Jane Bryson, Joan Armand Assante, Screen Actor, Campbell Hall, NY Vincent Ryan, CEO, Schooner Capital, Boston, MA Brown Campbell, Paul Campbell, Katie Clarke, Disabled Richard Barker, Director, Capital Group International, Michael Schneider, Executive Vice President, Special Peoples’ International, Alyson Feltes, Rick and Fabienne Inc., San Francisco, CA Operations, American Jewish Joint Distribution Guerin, Nahela Hadi, Judy Heumann, Andy Imparato, the Commitee, , NY International Baccalaureate Organization, the International Susan W. Coulter, New York, NY Campaign to Ban Landmines, Heidi Kuhn, Andy Lawlor, Ross Sherbrooke, Private Trustee, Boston, MA Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Professor, Laura Linney, Doug McCormack, Ann McLaughlin-Korologos, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Gail Snetro-Plewman, Advisor for Health, Len Middleton, Mary Ann Mills, National Council on Save the Children, Johannesburg, South Africa Disability, NBC’s The West Wing, Ron Olson, Paddy Li Lu, Founding Partner, Himalaya Capital, New York, NY John R. Taylor, Wellspring Advisors, Philadelphia, PA Rossbach, Patricia Rowan, Nancy Rubin, Cynthia Ryan, Elliot Dee Dee Myers, Dee Dee Myers & Associates, Schrage, Nadine Shubailat, Will Smith, Anne Stauffer,

Washington, DC Allan R. White III, Boulder, CO UNA/Adopt-a-Minefield, UNMAS, US Campaign to Ban KEVIN MAZUR, ADOPT-A-MINEFIELDÒ BENEFIT GALA 2002 Jerry White, LSN Co-Founder and Executive Director, Landmines, Curt Walters, and too many more to list here. Lady Heather Mills McCartney and Sir Paul McCartney presented Mike Paliotta, Director Institutional Equity Sales, Credit LSN Co-Founders Jerry White and Ken Rutherford with the Suisse First Boston, New York, NY Washington, DC LSN receives in-kind contributions and pro bono services Adopt-A-Minefield® Humanitarian Award for their leadership in from friends including Dick Schubert, Arnold & Porter, and the global landmine movement at a benefit gala in Los Angeles Munger Tolles & Olson. in September 2002. Contributors $100,000+ Fullerton, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gendelman, Gevirtz Family Trust, Staff, Consultants and Trainers Allan R. White, Jr., Anonymous Donor, Government of Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Girsky, The Guerin Foundation, Mr. and Jerry White, Executive Director Lindsay McMahon, Network Services Director Government of Norway, International Trust Fund, Schooner Mrs. Robert Haft, The Hassenfeld Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Julia Roig, Chief Operating Officer Patrick Mitchell, Communications Assistant Foundation, The Spirit Foundation, Stavros S. Niarchos Frank Hatch, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hester, Ms. Susan Hunter, Foundation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kay Isaacson and Harry Liebowitz, Karin Katz, Mr. and Mrs. Kristan Beck, Director of Finance and Administration Brett Norton, Foundation Coordinator Beth Sperber Richie, Senior Trauma Research Consultant Ross Margolies, Laurie McKinley, Peter Mulderry, Christine Mona Abdeljawad, Middle East Regional Coordinator $10,000 – 99,999 Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Paliotta, Purchase Meeting-New Jonathan Rothenberg, Consultant, Afghanistan Zahabia Adamaly, Advocacy Program Officer Anonymous Donor, Arnold & Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. York, Restorative Dental Group of Cambridge, Mr. and Mrs. Sue Schafer, Art Director Joelle Balfe, Advocacy Consultant Barker, Helen Boyle, Church World Service, Compton Foundation, Adam Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Risen, Rotary International – Amy Schmidt, Research and Evaluation Field Investigator Elaine Belmear, Advocacy Program Associate Mr. and Mrs. David Coulter, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Davis, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Patricia Rowan, Roy A. Hunt Bunnary Tan, Senior Accountant Dorot Foundation, Elizabeth Jones Thorne and Samuel Thorne Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Russell, Secura Burnett Joelle Caschera, Trainer David Thomforde, Trainer Fund, Fidelity Foundation, The Gammon Family, International Company LLC, Severn School, Mr. and Mrs. E. Leroy Tolles, Mary Daly, Consultant, Institutional Advancement Karen Welter, Communications Coordinator Baccalaureate Organization, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller, Mr. and Jean T. Trueblood, Mr. and Mrs. Donald White, Mary White, Julia Downs, Network Services Program Assistant Raquel Willerman, Senior Officer, Program Development Mrs. Ron Olson, Ploughshares Fund, Nancy Rubin, Vincent Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Robert White, The Winnick Family Foundation Dalia El Khoury, Research Assistant and Carla Myer, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke, Smart Family Kirsten Young, European Regional Coordinator and Legal Counsel Angela Ferguson, Trauma Research Consultant Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. White, III, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry $500 – 999 White, Working Assets Pamela Bennett, Jean Birmann, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. and Juliane Foster, Individual Donor Program Coordinator NETWORKS Lisa Friedenberg, Country Program Officer Rebecca Meden, Mary Helen Boyle, P.C. Boyle, Steven R. Cady LSN-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Plamenko Priganica, Director $1,000 – 9,999 and Christine Angeles, Cary A. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Cole, Kathleen Gaines, Network Services Database Manager LSN-El Salvador, Jesús Martinez, Director Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Inc., The Allequash Foundation, Diann M. Cunningham, Dr. John de Csepel, Mr. and Mrs. Maria Gomez, Trauma Research Consultant Arnold Hiatt Fund, Armand Assante, Nicholas J. Baker, May Theodore First, Franke Family Charitable Foundation, Georgetown Kathy Guernsey, Advocacy Program Attorney LSN-Ethiopia, Bekele Gonfa, Director Baldwin and Elliot Kronstein DDS, John J. Barker, John Boyle, Presbyterian Church, Ruth Gould, Helen T. Higgins, Independence Antonio Guerra, Information Management Coordinator LSN-Jordan, Adnan Al Aboudi, Director Mig Boyle and Bob Hoyt, Kim Brizzolara, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Foundation, JustGive.org, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kagan, Kleiman David Hawk, Consultant LSN-Mozambique, Manuel Chauque, Director Brock, The Brunetti Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John Bryson, Philanthropic Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Tom C. Korologos, Carmen M. The Byers Foundation, Canadian Embassy – Portugal, Night of Kreeger, Janet E. Lord and Julie Mertus, Dr. Malcolm W. Anne Hayes, Country Program Officer LSN-Vietnam, Director Pending 1000 Dinners, Canadian Landmine Foundation, Carol F. MacNaught, William J. McGrath and Antoinette D’Orazio, Nina Michelle Hecker, Country Program Officer PHOTO CREDITS: S. Eitel, J. Fredericks, L. Friedenberg, A. Hayes, W. Jordan, Horning – Woehrle Charitable Lead Trust, Chautauqua Region F. Muscato, Peter and Rosanne Aresty Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Catherine Henry, Office Manager M. Junge, M. Katz, C. Manula, J. Rothenberg, T. Tadras-Whitehill, K. Welter, Community Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Robert D’Alelio, Doris Daniel Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Saxon, Gail Snetro-Plewman, Mr. Lisa Hicks, Executive Management Assistant R. Willerman Cadoux/Hal Schwartz Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Evans, and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike, United Church of Christ, First Becky Jordan, Senior Program Officer RUTHERFORD FELLOWS: Glenna Fak, Claudia Garman Frances Patrick Anthony Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. James Congregational, Curt Walters Michael Junge, Overseas Finance and Operations Coordinator WEB DESIGN: Jeff Wright, Twentycent Interactive Janet Lord, Advocacy Director COUNSEL: Arnold & Porter, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Our deepest thanks and appreciation to LSN’s nearly 300 other individual donors and generous friends. DIRECT MAIL: O’Brien McConnell & Pearson, Inc. Special thanks to all who contributed to the Allan R. White Memorial Fund. Christine Manula, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator Landmine Survivors Network • 1420 K Street NW • Suite 650 • Washington, DC 20005 tel 202.464.0007 • fax 202.464.0011 www.landminesurvivors.org • United Way/CFC #9881